Chocolate quinoa cookies!

Ever have leftover cooked quinoa which you’d like to use somehow? Try these cookies! They are beautifully crunchy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside with a nutty rich chocolate flavour – divine.

Makes 6 medium or 8 small cookies

You need:

1 cup cooked quinoa (white, red, black or tricolour)

1/2 cup nut meal/flour (eg. almond, hazelnut or coconut)

1 Tbsp. nut butter (eg. almond or peanut)

1 heaped Tbsp. cocoa or cacao powder

1 Tbsp. coconut oil, in liquid form

1 Tbsp sweetener (maple sugar, honey, raw sugar, coconut sugar)

A dash of vanilla essence

1 tsp. cinnamon

A pinch of salt

To make:

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl to create a sticky batter. Taste and add more sweetener if you like. Then using your hands roll batter into balls (using about 1 Tbsp. for each cookie), place on baking paper and press down gently with a fork. Bake for 12-15mins, allow to cool and then keep in an airtight container.

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